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Starting with the Roman Republic in 300BC and continued during the Roman Empire, the Roman State built and maintained hundreds of thousands of miles of roads. The roads were important for the movement of people, trade, and of course, armies. At its height, the empire had over 250,000 miles of roads – of which 50,000 miles were paved. So what would it take for the representation of these ancient roads in the modern world? A subway map, of course!

Sasha Trubetskoy created this map representing Roman roads in 125 AD in a fashion similar to modern subway maps. Sasha says the map involved a lot of research since there was no single consistent source, plus, some creative liberties had to be taken for the map.

A machine rolling out a road is the kind of thing you expect to see in animation. Well, that fiction is now reality with the Tiger-Stone machine. Workers feed the machine with bricks and it simply goes ahead and creates a cobbled road. The machine can lay out 300 square meters of six-meter wide road in a day, making construction easy and quick.